Sentence examples for scarcely one from inspiring English sources

But from that first impact, among many on the roof, the mood was scarcely one of cool detachment, or at least not as cautioned as it might have been by the longer-term implications of what we were seeing.

This work by a minor modern artist is scarcely one of the greatest works in the Rijksmuseum.

But on a statistical basis, there are a zillion kids playing video games, and scarcely one of them will commit a violent crime.

And, like that, I am catapulted back to Friday evenings in the 1970s and 80s, scarcely one of which in my memory wasn't thrown into chaos by cars abandoned at key points across the city.

Seton counsels absolute frankness on sexual issues, but when it comes to giving details, he delegates: In this handbook I have touched upon many important items of a boy's education, but there is scarcely one more important than that of continence.

In the Tucson sector, just 15 such persons had been picked up by Sept. 10 in the fiscal year that was about to end — scarcely one a month, a total that could easily be exceeded in an afternoon at a busy airport receiving flights from those same places.

People in Narathiwat province have three and a half years less schooling, on average, than residents of Bangkok, and earn scarcely one-eighth as much.

Four years after employment peaked, scarcely one-third of the net loss in jobs has been reversed.

Even with G.M.'s run-up, however, its stock trades at less than nine times projected earnings, scarcely one-third the average multiple accorded the Dow industrials.

The killers, madrassa students, didn't know Rahman; they scarcely knew one another.

His life has been scrutinised as scarcely no one else's, but an inner core is still unfathomable.